Lyndon
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · #2,183 for boys in 2025, 65 births
Given to boys 95.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1964 · 515 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,705since 1904
Lyndon over time
Rank among boys' names. Lyndon has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 | #2,183 | 65 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #1,752 | 94 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #1,851 | 86 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #1,760 | 94 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #1,591 | 108 |
| 2020 | #4,880 | 26 | #1,673 | 95 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #1,494 | 114 |
| 2018 | #4,076 | 35 | #1,530 | 111 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #1,195 | 155 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | #1,326 | 135 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #1,190 | 155 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #1,237 | 147 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #1,277 | 136 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #1,383 | 121 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #1,364 | 123 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #1,503 | 108 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #1,497 | 111 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #1,633 | 95 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #1,405 | 116 |
| 2006 | — | #1,551 | 95 | |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #1,603 | 85 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #1,446 | 96 |
| 2003 | — | #1,438 | 91 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,792 | 64 | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #1,763 | 64 |
| 2000 | — | #1,514 | 79 | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #1,395 | 84 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #1,231 | 99 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,242 | 93 |
| 1996 | — | #1,292 | 85 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,338 | 77 | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #1,332 | 77 |
| 1993 | — | #1,238 | 84 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,281 | 78 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #1,117 | 96 |
| 1990 | — | #1,102 | 94 | |
| 1989 | — | #891 | 128 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,013 | 93 | |
| 1987 | — | #943 | 100 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #937 | 95 |
| 1985 | — | #1,007 | 82 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,084 | 68 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,040 | 72 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,096 | 69 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,270 | 52 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,272 | 53 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,370 | 46 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,452 | 41 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,335 | 46 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,210 | 51 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,238 | 47 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,151 | 51 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,082 | 56 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,473 | 33 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,289 | 42 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,051 | 60 | |
| 1969 | — | #817 | 89 | |
| 1968 | — | #799 | 86 | |
| 1967 | — | #732 | 101 | |
| 1966 | — | #591 | 161 | |
| 1965 | — | #442 | 306 | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #345 | 515 |
| 1963 | — | #594 | 175 | |
| 1962 | — | #632 | 148 | |
| 1961 | — | #549 | 206 | |
| 1960 | — | #505 | 247 | |
| 1959 | — | #560 | 193 | |
| 1958 | — | #606 | 161 | |
| 1957 | — | #608 | 159 | |
| 1956 | — | #638 | 141 | |
| 1955 | — | #753 | 95 | |
| 1954 | — | #813 | 79 | |
| 1953 | — | #884 | 66 | |
| 1952 | — | #883 | 63 | |
| 1951 | — | #791 | 79 | |
| 1950 | — | #806 | 71 | |
| 1949 | — | #798 | 74 | |
| 1948 | — | #795 | 73 | |
| 1947 | — | #861 | 65 | |
| 1946 | — | #799 | 69 | |
| 1945 | — | #927 | 48 | |
| 1944 | — | #735 | 71 | |
| 1943 | — | #628 | 102 | |
| 1942 | — | #729 | 78 | |
| 1941 | — | #644 | 90 | |
| 1940 | — | #939 | 46 | |
| 1939 | — | #992 | 41 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,125 | 33 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,180 | 31 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,068 | 36 | |
| 1935 | — | #992 | 41 | |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | #1,133 | 34 |
| 1933 | — | #1,330 | 25 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,236 | 30 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,194 | 33 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,215 | 34 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,154 | 36 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,293 | 31 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,293 | 32 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,242 | 34 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,164 | 37 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,287 | 32 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,322 | 30 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,107 | 41 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,159 | 38 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,180 | 37 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,122 | 38 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,152 | 36 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,291 | 28 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,120 | 34 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,015 | 39 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,300 | 21 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,365 | 15 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,268 | 14 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | #928 | 12 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | #1,345 | 5 | |
| 1906 | — | #927 | 8 | |
| 1905 | — | #1,233 | 5 | |
| 1904 | — | #1,064 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Lyndon! It came in at #1,064, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1907–1909, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Lyndon is popular in 1951
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#307 · 1 in 6,300
- Texas#637 · 1 in 9,933
- California#765 · 1 in 25,909
Best ever in a state: #147 in North Dakota, 1959.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #307 | 6 | 1 in 6,300 |
| Texas | #637 | 11 | 1 in 9,933 |
| California | #765 | 5 | 1 in 25,909 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lyndon
- 431 spots since 2024 (#1,752 → #2,183)
- 510 spots since 2020 (#1,673 → #2,183)
- 993 spots since 2015 (#1,190 → #2,183)
- Biggest jump: 306 spots in 1906 (#1,233 → #927)
- Biggest drop: 609 spots in 1911 (#928 → #1,537)
- Debuted 1904
- Peaked 1964 at #345 (515 births)
- Births halved by 1966, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1939–1969
- Highest: 1 in 3,869 boys born in 1964 were named Lyndon (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,278 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.0% of all boys named Lyndon (2,034) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 24 | #927 (1906) | #1,142 |
| 1910s | 243 | #928 (1910) | #1,210 |
| 1920s | 348 | #1,107 (1922) | #1,220 |
| 1930s | 338 | #992 (1935) | #1,147 |
| 1940s | 716 | #628 (1943) | #786 |
| 1950s | 1,107 | #560 (1959) | #734 |
| 1960s | 2,034 | #345 (1964) | #601 |
| 1970s | 473 | #1,051 (1970) | #1,265 |
| 1980s | 812 | #891 (1989) | #1,055 |
| 1990s | 867 | #1,102 (1990) | #1,257 |
| 2000s | 896 | #1,405 (2007) | #1,564 |
| 2010s | 1,305 | #1,190 (2015) | #1,350 |
| 2020s | 542 | #1,591 (2021) | #1,802 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lyndon in 1951
Top boys' names in 1951
More about 1951
boys
1,882,837 boys got a published name in 1951; 1 in 23,833 of them was named Lyndon, which outranked 81.4% of the 4,253 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).